The army, which had originally performed at a very high level in the entire battle, was not guaranteed at night, and noticed that the Russian army had a cavalry brigade on the north and south lines in pursuit, including generals like Nozu Kando, who also thought that it was a large-scale reinforcement from the Russian army.

The army of more than 20,000 people was defeated all the way, losing its armor and all kinds of baggage, and the 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, which had just arrived at Shalingtai, was helplessly left behind, and as a result, Major General Toshima Yozo was captured by the miscellaneous cavalry regiment led by Song Biao.

After seizing the Shalingtai position, Song Biao stood on horseback, watching more than 160 artillery pieces in front of him rest on the position, thousands of mules and horses were scattered around, and the soldiers and generals of the entire brigade were gone.

Li Fugui's reconnaissance company found a large force in the northwest along the river, and reported it to Song Biao, who immediately asked the whole army to abandon their war horses and find positions and bunkers nearby, preparing to intercept the retreat of the Yue army here, and at the same time asked Li Fugui to take a team of people to Liumuling to send more Russian soldiers to reinforce them.

Six Hatch Chase machine guns were discarded on the artillery position of Shalingtai, and they reused them nearby, and before the soldiers could flee to the front of the position, all the machine guns rang out at the same time, and they fired wildly on the position.

The black-pressed group of soldiers was like crows flying in the sky, they did not organize a counterattack in front of the formation, but only retreated while firing, and they did not have the courage to confront Song Biao's troops of 400 people at all, and they could only retreat into the Prince River if they retreated.

In the distance, the pursuit of a Russian cavalry brigade was imminent, and the sound of galloping horses' hooves shook layers of sound and billowing smoke and dust on the ground, and a large number of soldiers were forced to jump into the Taizi River, struggling in the river as wide as 200 meters, and only the cavalry fired at it.

He really couldn't bear the insult and depravity of jumping into the Taizi River, so he could only lead thousands of soldiers to break off on the spot with the last courage, relying on various river embankments and sand piles along the river to resist the Russian army.

All of this was really beyond Song Biao's expectations.

Song Biao only had more than 400 troops, so he had no intention of competing with the cavalry brigade newly reinforced by the Russian army, compared to the false merit of killing and capturing the army general Nozu Guanmichi, he cared more about the 162 artillery pieces in front of him, even if the army's 75mm mountain cannon could only be regarded as a bulky version of the grenade launcher, the 12 cm howitzer field gun they imported from Germany was a real heavy artillery, and there were as many as 30 guns.

The baggage and attachment of a cavalry brigade are very valuable, and an artillery shell costs at least 10 yuan of silver for a shell, and a heavy field artillery such as a 12 centimeter field artillery requires 10 horsepower to haul, and the shells required for each cannon need 20 horsepower to pull and send, and this 2nd field artillery brigade of the Chinese army is equipped with a subordinate transport wing with more than 8,000 horsepower.

It's all money.

Song Biao didn't do anything, so he transferred the cavalry regiment on Xue Changqing's side, and constantly searched for the horses and baggage discarded by the army in the surrounding area, hoping to restore the configuration of this artillery brigade as soon as possible in the future.

As a result, the cavalry brigade of the new Russian army was actually blocked in front of the embankment on the south side of the Taizi River by the remnants of the Nozu Guandao, and the miscellaneous cavalry brigade temporarily reorganized by Colonel Brusilov pursued the Yue army all the way to the Yellow Mud Flat and Liuhao Town, and more than 6,000 Yue troops became prisoners, and most of the rest were killed or dispersed and disappeared.

It was only when Chen Wu and Jiang Yanxing led the militia brigade to reinforce Shalingtai that Song Biao went to reinforce the Cossack cavalry brigade of the Russian army with more than 1,000 troops, and carried the Hachkaith machine gun discarded by the army to the front line.

General Nozu Guandao did not leave the river embankment position at this time, this place is commonly known as Sheephorn Bay, most of the local villagers were recruited by Song Biao before, there is a small slope on the north side of Tunzi, after the slope is the Taizi River, the river is about 160 meters wide, Nozu Guandao led half of the infantry wing to do the last stubborn resistance in this small slope.

Nozu Guandao's luck belongs to a very bad type, he happened to be in the southern position to storm Liaoyang County, and when the whole army retreated, he was not suitable for the task of breaking the rear, and he was really embarrassed after the great escape of the broken army.

He runs, he can't run away, he breaks off...... Even if he left all his troops in the southern position, the Russian army would not ignore him, at most they would send a part of the troops to hold him back, and then come to encircle him after solving the rout on the west side of the army.

And that's exactly what it turned out to be.

As the second commander-in-chief of the Manchurian Army, General Nozu Guandao at this time was really very embarrassed, but he bravely decided to leave the opportunity to flee to the young people of the Yue Army, and he personally after the embankment on the south side of the river was broken, but how many of the young people of the Yue Army who jumped into the Taizi River swam to the other side alive, and how many of them could escape back to the headquarters of the Yue Army in Liaozhong County at this time, I am afraid it is unknown.

Clever and cunning, an old thing like Nozu Kanmichi, he understands all this very well, so he stays here for the last battle just for the last honor and dignity.

He was the commander-in-chief of the Manchurian Army, and although such a large-scale rout was not something he could control, it was not something he could bear, and if he did not die on the battlefield and he returned to the world to live, then he would be the sinner of the entire nation.

Therefore, he would rather die here in the most heroic manner.

Song Biao understood the mood of General Nozu Guandao very well, and realized that Sheephorn Bay would be the final scene of the entire Battle of Liaoyang, and Song Biao was not in a hurry to mobilize the whole army to defeat the opponent.

When he arrived at the position, he first met with Colonel Erivsky, a new recruit of the Russian army, who was a cavalry colonel from the Kuban Cossack cavalry, and led the Kuban Cossack Cavalry Brigade under the Fourth Army, which only arrived on the battlefield in Russia in April this year.

It should be said that Colonel Erivsky's luck is very good, the two cavalry brigades and mountain brigades of Brigadier General Samsolov and Colonel Salenhorn have been fighting on the outskirts of Liaoyang for several days, and they have not yet arrived.

At this time, Song Biao's status in the entire Russian Far East Army was quite high.

is also a colonel, Song Biao is also a miscellaneous colonel that is basically not officially recognized by the Russian army, Colonel Erivsky saluted first as soon as he saw Song Biao, of course, regardless of whether Song Biao is a miscellaneous card or not, he is the commander of the Liaoyang Defense Region after all, and between the same ranks, you have to salute first.

After Song Biao returned the salute, he warmly shook hands with the old-school senior cavalry colonel, who was estimated to be nearly fifty years old, and praised: "The blockade of the army on the periphery is extremely strict, and your troops can arrive in Liaoyang at this time, which really saves us!" ”

Colonel Erivsky was also very happy when he heard this, and also exclaimed: "Colonel Beo, you are currently the most shining front-line general in our Far Eastern Army and in the entire Tsarist Russian Empire, and there may not be many people in Russia who do not know your name now. As far as I know, in the long military history of Russia, you will be the fastest general to be promoted to brigadier general on record, I have just arrived from the headquarters of the Far Eastern Army, and I am relatively well informed, and there are even rumors that you may be unusually promoted to major general of infantry after this great victory. If the rumors are true, I think you deserve such an exceptional promotion. As a soldier, and especially a general of the Cossack cavalry, allow me to praise you with the most valiant, the most tenacious and the most brilliant in the words of the most heroic, the most tenacious and the most brilliant in this war, which you almost single-handedly saved. ”

After saying this, Colonel Erivsky once again saluted solemnly, and the staff officers and Cossack cavalry generals behind him also saluted Song Biao.

It seems that from this point, it can also be seen what position Song Biao is already in the Russian army at this time.

Military men speak with war and military exploits.

Song Biao looked at everyone at this time, slowly raised his hand to return the salute, and once again thanked these Russian generals for their respect to him.

Gunfire rang out incessantly on the position, and fierce fighting continued among soldiers on both sides.

The war is not over.

Colonel Erifsky immediately asked Song Biao: "Your Excellency, it seems that we still have this last battle left, and the will to resist here is still very tenacious, how do you plan to arrange for us to attack the opponent?" ”

Song Biao thought for a while, pointed to the front line and said, "Let's take a look first!" ”

After saying this, he personally walked to the position and used a telescope to observe the position less than 300 meters on the opposite side, and said that the army was also in a hurry to break off here, and did not even dig the position, but simply piled up some bunkers, dug some simple individual pits, and used more than 1,000 rifles to resist the attack of the Russian army.

Song Biao can even clearly see several senior generals of the Yue Army, and even these have been put into battle, at this time, the Yue Army is digging trenches in the rain of bullets, fighting for the last honor and dignity, and killing one more Russian army is earned.

Seeing all this, Song Biao sighed, and ordered Jiang Yanxing beside him: "Go and contact Lieutenant Colonel Pakilov, and ask him to lead the team directly to the Shalingtai position and bombard this position with the 75-mm mountain artillery discarded by the army." ”

Immediately, he and Colonel Erifsky asked, "Did you come with mortars and enough shells?" ”

Colonel Erivsky shook his head regretfully, and said, "We were temporarily transferred to reinforce your troops, and we didn't carry these new weapons, we only had heroic warriors and strong horses. ”

Song Biao smiled and said: "Then you can only use the artillery of the army to attack first, the war has reached this point, there is no need to lose too many troops, let the soldiers dig trenches along both sides to advance, after the artillery strike, everyone still use shotguns to carry out the final attack." ”

Colonel Erifsky nodded silently, Song Biao's reputation in the Russian army at this time was extremely powerful, and the combat method he proposed as the supreme commander of Liaoyang was definitely not something that Colonel Erifsky dared to oppose.

That's execution.

The cavalry all dismounted, followed by Song Biaoxin's troops to dig trenches on both sides of the small slope, and gradually assaulted forward, according to Song Biao's design, the trench was designed at an oblique angle of 10 degrees, and the more backward it was, the more shrinking, and when it was less than 150 meters away from the small slope of Giehorn Bay, he would order the soldiers to attack wave by wave.

To this end, Song Biao transferred the 7th Siberian Infantry Regiment, which was already less than 1,200 men on Major Neznamov's side, to attack on both sides.

On the opposite side of the Russian position, when General Nozu Kando discovered that the Russian army was gradually infiltrating with more rational and correct tactics, he knew that the clever commander "Beo. Vladimir. Song: "The infantry colonel has arrived on the opposite side, and the general trend has gone.

Until this moment, he still couldn't admit that "Beo. Vladimir. Song is a "Zhina man", and he is also stubbornly unwilling to face this matter.

Because of the lack of perfect bunkers and trenches, after a fierce attack by the Russian artillery, the last unit of Nozu Guandao suffered heavy damage, and even his own son-in-law Yusaku Uehara Chief of Staff was killed by artillery fire, as the Russian army attacked from both sides, the front continued to blockade and suppress the army with twenty machine guns, and the army general Nozu Guandao could only rush out of the position with a gun in person, and let the Russian soldiers kill him in the most tragic way with a shotgun.

He would rather end his position as commander-in-chief of the Manchurian Army in this way than surrender to the Russian army or return to his homeland with a long breath.

After his death, the last battle ended with less than 200 soldiers.

The entire Battle of Liaoyang officially ended at about 3 p.m. on June 23, 1905, with a total of 33,500 casualties and 94,000 casualties and 7,455 prisoners of Song Biao's Manchurian Infantry Division and the Russian army.

The Russian army captured 310 artillery pieces and 244 machine guns.

The remaining 137,000 troops of the army failed to complete the retreat at the last moment, and were divided by the Russian army in the two areas of Liaozhong and Tashan, and the main force of the army in Liaozhong was forced to continue to abandon the baggage and retreat to Panshan County.

In order to prevent the Russian army from taking the opportunity to send troops to occupy Jinzhou, Qing Zhengaxe could only send troops to resist the Yue army on the one hand, and on the other hand sent Yuan Shikai, the governor of Zhili, to negotiate with Yue Benzheng Axe, almost begging the Yue army not to continue to retreat to Jinzhou.

At this time, the army could not manage so much, forcibly withdrew to the area of Jinzhou Bay, and with the support of the navy, tried to gradually withdraw to the Korean Peninsula by sea, and continued to fight the Russian army on the Korean Peninsula.

The Battle of Liaoyang was the biggest turning point in the entire Russo-Russian War, and its significance far exceeded the two major defeats of the Russian army in the navy, and the last less than 100,000 troops of the Russian army were surrounded by the Russian army in Jinzhou.

After half a month of repairs in Liaoyang, Song Biao, who had been officially promoted to brigadier general of the Russian infantry, led the 14th Army of the first group of the Russian Far Eastern Army to advance all the way to capture Gaizhou, and fought until Lushun, where he confronted the fleet outside the port.

On July 27, 1905, under the mediation of Britain and the United States, the two sides reached a preliminary armistice agreement, and the army retreated to the Korean Peninsula with the assistance of the navy, and the Russian army withdrew from Jinzhou, reoccupied Lushun, and expelled the forces of the army from the northeast.

In addition to the terms of the armistice agreement that still need to be discussed at the end, the Russo-Russian War has basically ended, the army basically has no army, and the Russian army basically has no navy, and there is no way to fight this battle.

Russia really wanted to take the opportunity to seize the Korean Peninsula, but the situation at home was even more severe, and it would be extremely unfavorable for the Tsar's political axe to continue fighting, so it could only stop at the Liaodong Peninsula.

After the armistice, Song Biao repaired on the Liaodong Peninsula for a period of time, and then led his troops back to Shenyang, and the whole army was stationed in Tanglin Wei for repair.

He and General Kuropatkin, commander-in-chief of the Russian Far Eastern Army, and General Madenidov, chief of staff, had reached a gentleman's agreement on the distribution of the spoils of war -- the Russian Far Eastern Army agreed in principle to dispose of the captured military equipment to him, because the Russian army did not need these things, and the part of the Russian army that he had recaptured would be returned to the Russian army and the part that was not needed would be disposed of by him.

On the question of whether Song Biao was willing to take up the post of governor of the three eastern provinces with the support of Russia, Song Biao and General Madenidov were still in close consultations, and there was no conclusion for the time being.

Russia now has no navy, whether in Arthur or Vladivostok, they have no deterrent capability, including the Russian navy's position in the world has also been destroyed by itself, and it is impossible to continue to run amok in the Far East.

At this time, it was impossible for Russia to continue to arbitrarily appoint a governor of the Far East directly in Lushun as before, and a more appropriate way was to "recommend" a candidate who was "reluctantly" acceptable to the governor of the three eastern provinces, and at the same time ensure Russia's special rights and interests in the northeast under the service of this governor.

Song Biao was a little interested in this matter, but he also felt that this matter was a little tricky and troublesome, so he did not immediately agree, after withdrawing from the Liaodong Peninsula, he has been stationed outside Shenyang City for repair, and continued to recruit troops.

As the front-line commander to personally recapture the three strongholds of the Yue army in Qingniwa (Dalian), Lushun and Gaizhou, Song Biao took up a lot of the army's military salaries and baggage, and when he returned to Yang Guantun, he already had 43.32 million yuan of capital coupons, 24.5 million yuan of silver yuan, 11.7 million rubles, and the rest of the gold and silver added up to about 2 million taels of silver, plus the Russian army's monthly military expenditure of 1.5 million rubles, he was not short of money at all.

Guns and ammunition, he is not short of guns and ammunition at all, even machine guns, artillery, just war horses and military horses there are 17,500, it is impossible for the army to retreat in Jinzhou when the horsepower is transported away from the sea route, but it is cheap for the Russian army, Song Biao also reached an agreement with General Madenidov, ready to buy the surname at a suitable price.

What else is Song Biao missing?

There is no shortage of anything, that is, a large number of excellent non-commissioned officers and well-trained soldiers.

As long as he has these, in just one year, he will become the real king of the Northeast, the Qing Zheng Axe has long been like a floating cloud to him, with his current equipment level, the scale of the army, and his reputation, he will give the Qing Zheng Axe the gang of twenty guts, where do they dare to provoke him.

To put it mildly, now the Qing Zheng Axe is not thinking about whether to recruit An Song Biao, but is worried that Song Biao will provoke the Qing Zheng Axe.

Song Biao was not afraid of the Manchu court, and the Manchu court was afraid of him, this is true.

really made him irritable, just with his level, it is not a suspenseful story at all to fight Yanjing with an army of 30,000. Even if the Qing Zheng axe pulled out Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army, which had not yet taken shape, Yuan Shikai might not dare to really fight Song Biao.

Song Biao actually considered directly leading the army to rebel, and he still felt that it was too risky, although he had a very sufficient ammunition stock at the moment, but it was not enough to deal with a national war, and it was not difficult to fight until Yanjing expelled the Manchu court, and it was more difficult to control the whole country later.

To win the world, you must be patient and endure loneliness.

(To be continued)